ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,594, issued on May 27, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Generating interactive emails and tracking user interactions" was invented by Joe Teplow (New York), Scott Motte (Los Angeles), Kevin Dutra (New York), Mark Robbins (Brighton, Great Britain), Yamil Asusta (San Juan, Puerto Rico), Devin Torres (Austin, Texas), Steven Collins (New York), Trever Faden (Washington), Derek Jacobi (New York), Selby Kendrick (New York), Johnny Omar Mejias Luciano (New York) and Adam Beckerman (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and related technologies are provided for generating interactive emails and tracking u...